Taylor Swift has revealed why she pulled her music from Spotify earlier this week.

“All I can say is that music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment,” Swift told Yahoo! Music on Thursday. “And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.”

She should join Metallica.

Swift’s comments echo what she wrote in a July op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal.

“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for,” Swift wrote. “It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.”

Right, Taylor. Your music is totally art … and stuff.

Swift is definitely being paid right now. Her recent release “1989” sold more than 1.2 million copies in its first week, the biggest week for an album in 12 years.

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